Overnights

This week's topic: Top Worldwide Fitness Trends for 2025.

Rod caught up with sports historian Xavier Fowler, author of The Football War: The VFA and VFL's Battle for Supremacy 1930-1949, to talk about the history of Australian Rules football and untold story of the battle for supremacy on- and off-field between the Victorian Football League and the Victorian Football Association.

Did you know that sharks roamed the oceans before there were trees on earth? The earliest known sharks existed almost 500 million years ago.

Our topic this week is: Taking Your Training to the Next Level.

Tim caught up with Overnights producer Alisdair G. Bates to find out what is going on in Japan! 

Our topic this week is: When doing less exercise can be more beneficial for your health.

Have you ever had to return to your home town? Because that's the plight of Rhea, the main character in the new surreal crime drama Passenger. 

John joins Paul Verhoeven for a chat on the release of his latest book, Squat: A Week Squatting At Kanye's Mansion.

Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Brian Jones, and Robert Johnson all died at 27.

Singer songwriter Darren Hayes found fame with Savage Garden and a solo career, saying that celebrity was an escape from the bullying and abuse of his childhood.

Our topic for this week is: Busting exercise myths

Forty-five years after the best-selling Kane and Abel was published, Jeffrey Archer has a new novel, An Eye for an Eye.

Lawrence Ellsworth made a new translation of The Three Musketeers, and has been immersed in the swashbuckling world of Dumas and his characters ever since.

Are Buy Nothing Groups on Facebook doing more than meets the eye?

What's it like covering a war in 2024?

Actor Daniel Weyman plays The Stranger in Hobbit and Lord of the Rings prequel series The Rings of Power.

Fresh from a thought-provoking panel discussion at SXSW Sydney about positive masculinity in the face of its toxic alternative, Shane Jenek (aka Courtney Act) joins Paul Verhoeven for a chat.

Our topic this week is: Detraining and How to Mitigate its Effects.

Although we usually hear about rehab facilities when it involves a celebrity struggling with some form of addiction - the reality is, places like the Betty Ford Clinic are there to help everyday people deal with addiction issues. But how does rehab work? And how does someone become addicted to a substance? To find out, Rod spoke with Professor Keith Humphreys, a professor of Psychiatry at Stanford...

Former Adelaide Radio DJ Vic Le Grand joins Trevor Chappell to share some of the amazing freaky facts and forgotten gems from the wonderful world of trivia that you probably didn't know and had never bothered asking.

Rod caught up with Amy Hack, who is currently starring in the title role of the stunning new adaptation of 'Yentl' (based on the original Yiddish short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer) which is being performed 17 October — 10 November 2024.

This week's topic is: Tips for Safe and Effective Exercise for Life.

To find out more about boy bands, Rod was joined by Maria Sherman, boy band expert and author of Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS.

Rod caught up with actress Charlotte Friels, who is currently starring as poet Sylvia Plath in the new six-part ABC TV series drama, Plum (also starring Brendan Cowell and Asher Keddie), which is currently airing.

We're 6 months away from the next federal election. It's been about 90 years since a first term party was outed, however, the polls so far have the Labor and Liberal party fairly close. Does this signal a new volatility or unpredictability in our elections?